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TSA Security Officer Joins Contractor Under Investigation for Security Lapses

Kim Zetter writes on Threat Level:

Patricia Titus, chief information security officer for the Transportation Security Administration, is leaving the TSA next month to take a job with Unisys, a Department of Homeland Security and TSA contractor.

This might strike some people as odd, given that Unisys is currently under FBI investigation for criminal fraud for failing to protect the DHS computer network from intrusions.

Unisys won a $1 billion contract with the DHS in 2002 to secure and manage the IT network for the DHS and TSA but, according to congressional investigators, failed to properly install and manage intrusion detection systems on the networks then allegedly falsely certified to the DHS that the network had been protected to cover up its neglect.

posted by Fergie @ 2/22/2008 10:21:00 AM